The terrifying truth about how Slovak media works. Corrupt journalists. What the public doesn’t know. About a case bigger than Gorilla.
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Introduction to the article
It is very important to read this article to the end, because the most important things are written at the end of the article.
This article will tell you how the Slovak media works. How the Slovak media works is not publicly known because journalists will not criticize themselves. Why should the media tell the unpleasant truth about themselves when it would harm them? Of course, it’s logical. It is also interesting that the individual media do not criticize each other because there is an unwritten rule of mutual non-aggression.
This article is specifically intended for Police President Štefan Hamran, the head of the National Criminal Agency Ľubomír Daňka, and the head of the Slovak Information Service Michal Aláč, because the core of this article is the topic of extremely dangerous left-wing extremism, and how the media has approached a significantly larger corruption case than the Gorilla case, and how some journalists are directly involved in organized crime.
Furthermore, this article is specifically intended for journalists themselves, for editors-in-chief, for the silent majority among journalists, but also for bad journalists. Maybe I’m naive, but maybe some bad journalists and editors-in-chief will have a change of heart and try to repair the enormous damage they have caused when they read this article.
The way the media works is a nightmare. If I hadn’t experienced it myself firsthand from journalists, I wouldn’t have believed it could be so bad. And with the media, it’s much worse than the nightmare of an ordinary, uninformed citizen of the Slovak Republic. And the citizens of the Slovak Republic won’t easily learn the truth about the media, because only the media can report on the media, and there’s no other way for this information to reach people. Many media outlets would lose half their readers if the whole truth about them were revealed.
Personally, I don’t trust any media, not even the so-called alternative ones, which are financed by the Russian Embassy and the Russian secret service. Some time ago, I communicated with the now unfortunately deceased Peter Králik, who left Slobodný vysielač because he witnessed how Slobodný vysielač received generous subsidies from Russia and actually received more money than they declared publicly. However, this article will be about the so-called mainstream media. They operate a little more transparently, but even in them, the situation is not as rosy as you will find out in this article.
Before I get to the core of the article, I will write something about myself and my views. Unlike journalists, I do my anti-corruption activism completely freely, no one pays me, no one has given me a cent, and I am not indebted to anyone, I am not in any conflict of interest. I reject the criticism that by pointing out the corruption of the OĽANO party and Minister Ján Budaj, I am automatically a sympathizer of the Smer or Hlas party. My personal opinion is that Robert Fico and Robert Kaliňák are guilty people.
I also reject the criticism that I am a sympathizer of far-right political parties. By the way, I have a liberal political opinion. Yes, it is true that far-right political parties also drew attention to corruption, crime, and unfair practices at the Ministry of the Environment. I am not at all happy with this situation. I would be much happier if these topics of corruption became a broader political topic, but the media, their censorship, their concealment of cases, prevent it from being a broader political topic that decent political parties would also address. Also, some journalists who write for corrupt lobbying groups in the field of nature protection argue that corruption by Minister Ján Budaj is disinformation because a far-right politician said so. This is, of course, a very flawed logic. Probably the only topic about which far-right politicians do not spread hoaxes is the topic of nature protection. Not to mention that the KDH party also drew attention to Ján Budaj’s corruption scandals, as did lower-ranking regional members of the PS party, such as Mr. Ondráš.
Another important piece of information about me is that I have a deep relationship with nature. Since childhood, I have often gone for walks in the forest. To this day, I go for short walks in the forest and in nature not only on weekends but also several times a week, and I see a deep spiritual meaning in the forest and in nature. Of course, for this reason, I often get into conflicts with journalists and politicians who spread crazy misinformation about nature conservation, who are from the city and do not have such a relationship with nature.
How do the media actually work? On the moral character and personality disorders among journalists. Are journalists better than politicians?
First of all, to avoid misunderstanding, I am not criticizing all journalists and I am not lumping them all together. This article is primarily about several editors-in-chief, journalists who write for corrupt groups in the field of ecology, and investigative journalists. And to avoid misunderstanding, don’t worry, read on and you will find out what exactly I have against investigative journalists.
Journalists know how to do good PR for themselves. They present themselves as better and more morally pure than politicians. But the reality is that the media itself is the same or a bigger Augean stable than politics. There are no fewer scoundrels without moral principles among journalists than in politics. The media honestly adheres to the rule of mutual non-aggression, so unfortunately the general public will never learn about the enormous filth that is in the media. Journalists know a lot about each other, so it’s not worth bringing it up about each other.
Journalists are very similar to politicians. There are many psychopaths among them, or, to put it professionally, people with personality disorders. And beware, not only Matovič suffers from a personality disorder, but the editor-in-chief of Aktuality, Peter Bárdy, suffers from an even more serious personality disorder. I have verified information, but I will not go into details because it is not the main topic of the article. I don’t like to bring such personal sensitive matters to the public, but I do so for the public interest. Peter Bárdy is a dangerous person. I have nothing personal against people with personality disorders, but if such a person gets into an influential position, they are very dangerous. I am extremely concerned that people who would certainly not pass psychological tests are in influential journalistic positions and are therefore dangerous. And the same applies to politicians. On the one hand, we demand psychological tests from police officers and firefighters, on the other hand, much more influential journalists do not have to have them.
I am very glad that journalists criticize politicians. In the vast majority of cases, their criticism is justified and objective. On the other hand, I find it quite funny and tragicomic when the same journalist, about whom I have direct evidence of his bad moral character, criticizes a politician for a moral failure. It is hypocritical and pharisaical when a journalist preaches water and drinks wine. Good examples are journalists Peter Bárdy and Monika Tódová.
I also heard rumors that some investigative journalists have quite decent assets, which they could not have earned legally. I do not have this particular information fully verified, so I am not mentioning any specific names so as not to wrong anyone.
From a certain point of view, journalists are more dangerous than politicians. Journalists have approximately the same influence as politicians, and in that they are similar. A politician is controlled by the media, which is very good and correct. Unfortunately, there is no longer any control mechanism for the print media. If the media did not abuse the absence of a control mechanism, everything would be OK. But when I see how journalists abuse their position, if I were a politician, I would introduce similar regulations for the print media as already apply to television and radio, where any citizen can file a complaint about bias.
Aktuality and Denník N cynically exploit the lack of media regulation, such as the obligation to publish balanced information or to publish both opinion camps. In other European countries, such regulations probably exist. Both newspapers have extremely aggressively spread disinformation in favor of corrupt lobbying groups in the field of nature protection without giving an independent expert the opportunity to comment.
Why is investigative journalism a cesspool? Concealing major cases and creating fabricated affairs
First of all, I generally appreciate investigative journalists very much. Their work is dangerous and very necessary. On the other hand, many investigative journalists are scoundrels. Especially in Slovakia. I consider it a very serious moral failure that the media refused to publish even 5% of a much larger case than Gorila. This concerns corruption and criminality at the Ministry of the Environment (MŽP) and in nature protection. We can call the case by the working title Gorila Lesná. Despite the fact that the media received information about dozens and hundreds of affairs, they have a problem publishing even one percent of it.
More precisely, there has been no investigative journalism in Slovakia for the last 3 years. The English word “investigation” means investigation. An investigative journalist must therefore investigate, which means working hard. I don’t see this in Slovakia. For the last 3 years, investigative journalists have not been working on anything at all, they just passively publish information on how the police are investigating the cases of Smer oligarchs. No interest in cases outside the Smer party. The work of an investigative journalist is a dream job. You slack off and still get paid for it.
Yesterday, Monika Tódova received an email from me about a more serious case than Gorila, today she will publish a fabricated micro-case against the KDH party, ordered by an oligarch from ESET, who is a sponsor of Denník N, on how she financed candidate Kusý. Yes, you heard right. This is the work of journalists. To publish small affairs and conceal big ones.
I am generally extremely cautious about any media affairs concerning politicians. Affairs are very often artificially constructed. When a journalist publishes one affair about a politician, it means that they have concealed and refused to publish ten times bigger affairs about other politicians from rival parties. This often happens, and many examples could be found. I have given one.
The media often make a lot of noise about a small case, but conceal major corruption.
And who was Ján Kuciak? An honest journalist who had a conflict and bad interpersonal relationships with the scoundrel Peter Bárdy. Aktuality cynically exploits the memory of Ján Kuciak. Bárdy likes to use him to increase readership. However, Bárdy did not take his moral character from Kuciak.
Media financing. Huge influence of advertisers, sponsors. Aktuality.sk has the least transparent financing.
It is positive that most media outlets have subscriptions. This makes the media at least partially a little freer. However, subscriptions are not enough to cover all costs. Advertising is still a very important source of income. The media owner also wants to see revenue and does not want to be at a loss.
Some indications even suggest that Aktuality is probably actively looking for advertisers and sponsors, so the advertiser does not always offer themselves.
After the affair broke out, when Aktuality even voluntarily admitted that one of their propaganda lobby videos was sponsored by the well-known organized crime group BROZ, which became famous for embezzling EU funds, I no longer believe a word about their independence. Aktuality admitted to only one video being financed from embezzled EU funds, but the actual media subsidies are incomparably more extensive and complex.
The media will not disclose to the public how dependent they are on advertisers. People from the public would be shocked if they saw the enormous dependence of the media on advertisers.
The stubborn spread of hoaxes in favor of lobbying groups in the field of nature protection by media such as Aktuality may not only be due to Peter Bárdy’s personality disorder. An even stronger reason may be financial. We, as a lobbying group, will pour money into your Aktuality, but it will not be for free. We want something in return. You will write disinformation for us on demand in favor of our corrupt and lobbying interests. You will conceal all scandals, censor them, and not publish anything negative about us.
I have repeatedly warned Petra Bárdy about hoaxes and asked him to stop Aktuality from spreading them. They didn’t stop. I wonder why. If Bárdy had even a shred of ethics and morality, he would have to stop spreading hoaxes. He didn’t stop because he has no backbone. Money is more important to him than honesty and ethics.
Aktuality was the only media outlet that, during the biggest financial recession in connection with Covid and the war from 2020 to 2022, not only did not lay off employees but even approximately doubled the number of employees. But where on earth did they get the money for that? Did they just suck it out of their thumb? You have to pay employees with some money. The dependence on advertisers must be huge for Aktuality. They won’t even refuse Smer oligarchs, which can be proven at least with the J&T group, but there is no space here to provide details.
And we’re not even talking about the unofficial bribing of journalists. I can imagine the head of the BROZ corruption group coming to Bárdy and giving him money in an envelope. Furthermore, the individual bribing of editors.
In general, corrupt financial groups may ask the media to conceal and not publish any scandals about them, or not to publish scandals about a politician who works for them for their financial interests, such as Ján Budaj. In the field of nature protection, there is often a proactive and very aggressive defense of corruption and the spread of aggressive disinformation, which does not happen in corruption in other areas.
Sometimes, advertisers from competing financial groups can settle their scores through journalists by publishing scandals about each other.
I would also expect greater activity from all honest entrepreneurs and advertisers, to only advertise on the condition that the media stops spreading disinformation. Let them negotiate properly with the media. Unfortunately, for an honest entrepreneur, it’s just extra work, but for those who embezzle EU funds, there is a stronger motivation to negotiate with the media. I publicly call on all honest entrepreneurs to take on this extra work.
A bigger case than Gorila, but the media is censoring this case.
The media image of Budaj versus the real Ján Budaj
Ján Budaj is a prime example of the enormous influence and power of the media and how they have abused it. Ján Budaj is the main actor in a larger case than Gorila. The extent of the criminality and other affairs of Ján Budaj and co. is enormous. In some parameters, he even surpassed the worst ministers of the Smer party. It is extremely scandalous why the media is silent. I would not blame the media if they refused to publish some small case, such as a minister’s contract for 100 thousand euros. But this is a larger case than Gorila, and in such serious corruption, silence is reprehensible. I would not blame journalists if they did not know about this case. But information about dozens of affairs in the field of nature protection has been received by dozens to hundreds of journalists, and yet journalists are silent. Journalists cannot excuse themselves by ignorance, because they have enough information.
You can find specific cases in several of my articles and videos, all of which are publicly available and have also been provided to journalists.
I consider it an outrageous blasphemy that journalists Monika Tódová and Peter Hanák received an email yesterday with hundreds of scandals about Budaj, today they are interviewing Budaj and they do not ask him about a single scandal out of those several hundred. And yet it is a bigger scandal than Gorila.
It is very sad that the media is making a star out of Budaj, a serious criminal, and creating a positive image of him as perhaps the most capable and reasonable politician who cares about the public interest. The opposite is true. He is a politician with the same or worse karma as Robert Kaliňák.
We see here the ugly manipulation of public opinion and the collective consciousness of Slovak citizens. The media obscures reality, censors, turns white into black and black into white.
The work of the media is as follows. The media are objective towards some politicians and criticize them objectively, but they are subjective towards other politicians and make criminals out of positive people.
Many journalists make excuses, saying “I’m just a musician, I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m just silent, I have the right to do so, after all, I haven’t hurt anyone.” I disagree with this argument. And I’ll explain right away. I’ll start a bit philosophically. A shamanic scholar was asked what could harm a person’s karma the most. The shamanic scholar replied: “mostly it works like this, what you didn’t do is much more important than what you did. It is precisely by neglecting good that the greatest karmic burden most often arises.” Even in the Catholic faith, one can find 5% positive and instructive things. In Catholic liturgy, believers also pray and ask for God’s forgiveness for neglecting good, neglecting good deeds. Everyone who could have done something against corruption in nature protection and didn’t, becomes an accomplice. Not perhaps from the perspective of our earthly law, but from the perspective of the law of the universe, from the perspective of philosophy.
Dear journalists, I hope that your conscience has at least somewhat awakened and you will start acting. Your silence is complicity in a bigger case than Gorila. Please wake up and act!
The moral hyenism on the part of journalists is hard for me to understand. Even people who are atheists and materialists by conviction, who believe that everything ends after physical death, have at least a basic sense of ethics, goodness, truth, and justice. I thought that journalists at least professed these values in their rough outlines. I was wrong. I really don’t ask you journalists for anything above standard. After all, not remaining silent in such serious matters is considered a matter of course, not something above standard. It is the elementary basis of ethics.
Furthermore, I urge journalists not to remain silent and to complain to the editor-in-chief if a colleague writes open disinformation. Journalists from other newsrooms should not be indifferent either and should admonish the editor-in-chief of another daily.
Another argument for when silence is reprehensible. You surely know the famous saying about Nazism: for evil to prevail, it is enough for good people to do nothing. That is the silent majority. This topic, of course, is not as serious as Nazism, but the principle is the same.
I don’t like the infantilism of journalists who still haven’t learned responsibility. And journalists should also admonish each other.
Editor-in-chief Matúš Kostolný and Monika Tódová did a good PR job on themselves when they claimed they left the daily SME for ethical reasons when the financial group Penta bought half of the daily SME’s shares. I fell for it, now I don’t believe them. If these two people were guided by basic ethics, they would have behaved differently. Apparently, only the competing oligarchic group ESET gave them a better financial offer, double salaries. No ethical reasons.
I received an interesting answer on the topic of corruption from Ms. Makarova. She wrote back to me that they would not deal with corruption in nature protection, she did not give a reason, which I consider cowardly, and she further stated that I should deal with it myself and file a criminal complaint. Ms. Makarova’s argumentation is literally a cynical mockery. I am not God, and it has never happened in history that if an ordinary individual like me files a criminal complaint, it ends in success. It must be realized that this is a huge case, bigger than Gorila, and all suspects are big fish who have unlimited money and can pay entire teams of the best lawyers in Slovakia to get them out of everything. Big fish have only ever ended up in jail because it was a high priority for the highest police officials, the police president, the head of NAKA. And that is precisely why I sent an email to these two gentlemen with hundreds of affairs in the field of nature protection. If I filed a criminal complaint, it would be investigated by one police officer who does not have the capacity for it. Big cases are always investigated by entire police teams consisting of dozens to hundreds of elite investigators.
Imagine if I filed a criminal complaint against Norbert Bodor as an ordinary citizen, it would be a complete laughing stock, like an ant against Goliath.
And that is why I am publicly calling on you, Mr. Hamran and Mr. Daňko, to make this category of crime a priority for you. Be willing to devote a significant part of your efforts and resources to these cases, with at least 200 investigators. This is a bigger case than Gorila and should be treated as such.
Furthermore, I publicly call on you, Mr. Aláč, Director of SIS, to make Gorila Lesná a priority for you, to spend at least 10% of all the forces and resources that SIS has on monitoring this crime.
But this is another big problem. From experience, we know that without media support, no major case has been investigated and no big fish has been put in jail. The media are also accomplices in the fact that nothing is being investigated.
And that is why, Mr. Police President, I ask you to go for it, even though you do not have media support in this area. Furthermore, the same applies to you as to journalists, that you will spoil your karma more by inaction than by action, so you need to act.
Is Ján Budaj really as unprincipled and with the same karma as Fico and Kaliňák? Is the Gorilla Lesná case really bigger than Gorilla? Aren’t you exaggerating a bit? Look and read all my anti-corruption videos and articles with about 600 sourced links and you will find that I am not exaggerating at all. Everything is clearly demonstrated and proven. Furthermore, my opinion is shared by the entire professional community in the field of nature protection. I don’t know anyone who would disagree with me. And it’s not just an opinion but facts. Only a handful of experts who themselves profit from corruption in nature protection or people whose poor mental health I can prove disagree with me, because among fake eco-activists there is a high concentration of such people. And this applies not only at home but also abroad .
Unfortunately, the brainwashing by the media is very strong, and the media is doing a very dirty job by giving space to a characterless minority of such experts who present themselves as if they represent the majority among experts. The work of several media outlets is equally absurd, as if the media only gave space to anti-vaxxer doctors and presented them as if they represented the majority of all doctors, even though they are only one percent.
How much space did the media give to the disinformation campaign My sme les (We Are the Forest) and in the end, Ján Budaj approved 1 million euros from the recovery plan for its founders, Baláž and Wiezik, and their NGOs, while we already know for sure that 95% of this money will be stolen. But I’ve strayed a bit from the topic.
Even Ján Budaj himself stated at the press conference that in recent years alone, dubious organizations and associations have received EU subsidies amounting to 130 million, and the plan is for there to be much more money in the coming years. After all, Ján Budaj himself declared that the whole point of the national park reform is just more money for NGOs; nothing else was involved. However, the entire expert community is very united in the belief that the vast majority of that money will be stolen. This is really not a small case.
The mainstream media presents Budaj as a successful and good minister. But what is the reality? The intellectual world of nature conservation experts is radically different, as they consider him a scoundrel and a madman, and everyone turns their back on him and refuses to cooperate with him. Ján Budaj’s immense despair is also evident in the fact that he appointed Matej Dobšovič, a computer scientist by education who has never been involved in nature conservation in his life, as coordinator for national parks. This is absolutely insane. Even Robert Kaliňák had some experts in his field around him, but the main thing is that the mainstream journalists pretend that everything is fine. Ján Budaj does not have a single expert in the field at the ministry, nor is he in contact with them, because no one talks to him. Budaj is a very lonely person, and no one wants to talk to him except for a small handful of scoundrels whom he helps to embezzle EU funds for fake nature conservation. Slovakia has never had such a lonely and isolated minister as Ján Budaj. Matej Dobšovič is a characterless person who is willing to do any dirty work ordered from above. The extent to which he has economically and ecologically damaged the Bratislava city forests can only satisfy someone who does not understand ecology.
Far-left extremism
Fake environmental activists and journalists belong to the category of left-wing extremists. Left-wing extremism is as dangerous as right-wing extremism and should be treated as such. Hoaxes by left-wing extremists do not belong in the media.
Dear Police President Hamran and SIS Chief Aláč, I would like to ask you to exert sufficient effort and resources for monitoring left-wing extremism.
Double standards on disinformation
It is right and good that attention is drawn to the disinformation spread by Russian propaganda. The problem, however, is that, correctly speaking, editors-in-chief should not be indifferent to the disinformation of their subordinate editors.
The editor-in-chief’s excuse that “I am not responsible for anything, I just give absolute freedom of expression to my subordinate” is a very wrong approach. If you have such an approach, then give space to right-wing extremists and anti-vaxxers as well. In the case of Aktuality, morality has sunk to the very bottom, where the editor-in-chief even proactively supports disinformation in favor of corrupt groups.
Someone might argue, let’s give freedom of speech to journalists, let them freely spread even the most insane disinformation, such as the idea that a non-interventionist dead forest is better than a green living forest, or that the greatest evil is when a forester plants a tree. Yes, you heard right, even such insane disinformation was spread by journalists like Jana Kubisová and Soňa Mäkká. Some might laugh at it, thinking what kind of madness this is, that surely no one would believe such nonsense. I would not underestimate the significance of disinformation. It is not reasonable to support disinformation that destroys nature. Remember what Goebbels said: “A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth.” People are easily manipulated and are capable of falling for even the most absurd disinformation. Just as readers of pro-Russian websites, some of them, fell for the disinformation that anyone who got vaccinated was microchipped, readers of other newspapers in the field of nature protection will similarly fall for disinformation.
Especially people from the city who have no relationship with nature, like me, are particularly susceptible to such misinformation.
In the case of journalist Soňa Mäkká, the disinformation went so far that anti-corruption activist Jozef Bednár sent Denník N a pre-litigation notice. Denník N would have no chance of winning such a lawsuit, it is clear at first glance which side the truth is on, so Denník N probably had to retract the lies in the article. Journalist Mäkká aggressively defended the criminal big shot Pavol Majko. The aggressiveness of criminals in nature protection who buy journalists knows no bounds.
Examples of moral cynicism and hyenism of journalists
Psychopathy as a new trend in journalism . I consider it absolutely perverse that the disturbed journalist Jana Kubisová cynically revels in the stupid harassment of other people by nature protection authorities, that she is bothered by a light chain in the second degree of protection, which makes up about 60% of all forests. This certainly “disturbs” those sleeping bears very much. I call on all decent journalists not to remain silent and to speak up. Silence means normalizing madness and hyenism in journalism.
An ironic remark on Kubišová’s madness: I suggest banning lights everywhere. So that we don’t stress sparrows, titmice, frogs, grasshoppers, and the like. Even at home, so that mosquitoes don’t die an unnecessary death by hitting the windows…
The animals stay near the site and villages where there is also noise, not just light… Are you going to ban lighting in villages and towns as well?
Another article of a similar nature . A journalist revels in the harassment of the hospital management by nature conservation authorities during the construction of a patient parking lot in the public interest. Apparently, they did not have all the permits from the nature conservation authorities.
Personally, I see no difference between journalists Jana Kubisova, Peter Bárdy and the lunatics from the civic tribunal. Both of these groups have the same level of mental health. The absurdity of the disinformation of journalist Kubisova and the civic tribunal is often at the same level of desolation.
- Journalists do a lot of damage. They promote false nature conservation and complicate real nature conservation.
- By spreading disinformation, they complicate the investigation of crime in nature protection.
- I am frustrated with the indifference of many editors-in-chief to the environment, when they do not mind that their editors spread very harmful misinformation on this topic.
Additionally added content that is not part of the video
- In the case of the propaganda video commissioned by the BROZ association from Aktuality , it was not advertising but direct bribery of the editorial office and editors. Advertising is transparent at least in that one sees an advertisement for the company in question. In the case of the video commissioned by the BROZ group, important information was concealed, namely that BROZ was behind it. Although the BROZ logo was published in the last second of the video, 99.9% of the video’s viewers certainly did not notice this information, and the creators of the video know this very well. I do not rule out the possibility that the leak of information that the video was commissioned by BROZ was unintentional. The information was published so inconspicuously that even Peter Bárdy himself, who checked the video before its publication, might not have noticed it. If he had noticed it, he would have had this information removed. … After the outbreak of this affair, how can we be sure that the bribery of journalists on demand by various corrupt groups is not just a rarity but a very common practice? … The large disinformation campaign of the My sme les initiative, which was published in the Pravda newspaper before the reform of national parks, was undoubtedly also excellent business for the Pravda newspaper.
- If the corruption case in nature protection were a priority for the police leadership, I’m not saying that getting these people into jail would be easy. Even in the Gorilla case, no one is in jail yet. Unfortunately, the legislation is set up in such a way that the embezzlement of EU funds is, in most cases, not a crime in itself from the position of the subsidy recipient. Former senior European Commission official Ladislav Miko and several high-ranking Brussels officials should be brought to justice. So the investigation should be extended to the international level of Europol. On the other hand, getting important actors behind bars in this case will be significantly easier than in the Gorilla case.
- Media disinformation often causes experts, even when they very rarely get into the media, to be afraid to tell the truth. It is an ugly result of the dirty work of the media when experts are afraid to tell the whole truth. The media has created an atmosphere of fear. When the media massages public opinion with disinformation, while the journalist says black, the expert says white. The expert will tell you something different in private and something else for the media, because he is afraid of misunderstanding from the public manipulated by the media, so he has to tell only a small part of the truth. ……….. I will also give an example. While the media portrays Ján Budaj as one of the best politicians, on the contrary, the intellectual world of experts is exactly the opposite and they consider him one of the most dangerous politicians in the history of Slovakia. In this matter, there is absolute agreement among experts, regardless of whether the expert is a sympathizer of the conservative or liberal political wing. Now imagine how difficult it must be for an expert to criticize Ján Budaj in front of the public opinion manipulated by the media.
Let us not underestimate the danger of left-wing extremism and pseudo-ecological ideology. Left-wing extremism at the international level in Europe.
The enormous danger of corruption in nature protection is caused by the combination of left-wing extremism with corruption. And even Ján Budaj admitted at a press conference that it was precisely these left-wing extremist organizations that had been poured EUR 130 million from EU funds in recent years. Well, imagine if we poured EUR 130 million from EU funds into far-right extremism, what a scandal that would be. An extremist is a madman, and madmen are not given money; a madman with a lot of money is dangerous.
It is interesting to compare left-wing extremists in Slovakia and Germany. They are very similar. In Germany, left-wing extremists are mainly represented by the Green Party, which is currently in government. The Greens pushed for the shutdown of nuclear power plants at all costs. The result of the Green Party’s work is that nuclear power plants have been replaced by coal-fired power plants. Coal-fired power plants are operating at 200%, so Germany is breaking historical records in CO2 production. This is also criticized by the German opposition party CDU . By the way, for comparison, a nuclear power plant emits exactly zero grams of CO2 into the atmosphere.
And similarly, in Slovakia, it is the eco-extremists from the far left who are the loudest in shouting for us to destroy nature through non-intervention, that is, through bark beetle-infested dead forests and a disrupted ecosystem.
Left-wing extremism is no less dangerous than right-wing extremism. Left-wing extremism has caused energy prices to increase 20-fold. In Slovakia, they have also destroyed nature, and the villages under the Tatras were flooded due to disrupted forest ecosystems that lost their water retention function. Due to the floods, roads and bridges were torn off, and other major damages occurred.
Non-intervention as the only form of nature protection for extremists
Slovak far-left eco-extremists recognize non-intervention as the only form of nature protection, drawing inspiration from far-left extremists in Germany and Western Europe. However, even in Western Europe, it’s not that simple. Ecology is taught in Slovakia at the Faculty of Forestry in Zvolen, a university with the longest historical tradition in Europe, spanning 200 years. The Faculty of Forestry deservedly holds the top spot in international rankings. The Faculty of Forestry in Slovakia is the only one to achieve this international prominence, as general education in Slovakia is of a low standard. In Slovakia, we have the best experts in the world on the topic of ecology, yet we don’t appreciate them. Politicians prefer to succumb to the pressure of left-wing extremism and do the opposite of what experts say. Germans do not have such high-quality experts and still have to learn from their mistakes that a living forest is better than a dead one. They also need to sober up from left-wing extremism, which is another strong factor.
But the situation in Slovakia cannot be compared to Germany either. The Germans have fewer national parks, they are smaller, and the national parks are mostly located on plains or gentle slopes, where there is no risk of soil erosion and floods as in Slovakia, where the national parks are in the mountains. The Germans can afford to experiment, we in Slovakia cannot. Also in Germany and even more so in Austria, in the case of the bark beetle, exceptions are granted from the areas of the strictest non-intervention protection zone and they start logging there with harvesters. Not only in parts with a lower degree of protection. According to our Slovak eco-extremists, such a thing is unimaginable.
Eco-extremists refer to the IUCN in their non-interventionist approach, where the influences of left-wing extremism are strong. Extremists often spread hoaxes that this organization wants non-intervention from us. Despite the organization’s bombastic marketing name, it is just an ordinary private organization with which Slovakia and the EU have no binding contracts. Moreover, even this organization only recommends a 75% non-intervention rate in national parks as part of the definition of a national park.